John Pifer and Anna Gruntz

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Husband John Pifer ¹

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            AKA: G. F. Pfeiffer 2
           Born: Abt 1815 - Darmstadt, Germany
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           Died: 1864 - Kittanning Twp, Armstrong Co, PA 1
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         Father: [Father] Pifer (      -      )
         Mother: 

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       Marriage: 

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   Other Spouse: Anna Martha [Unk] (      -1850) 1 - Darmstadt, Germany

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   Other Spouse: Mary Aultman (      -Aft 1898) 1

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Wife Anna Gruntz ¹

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Children

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1 F Kate Pifer ¹

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           Died: Bef 1898
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         Spouse: [Unk] Raymer (      -      ) 1

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General Notes: Husband - John Pifer

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He and his first wife were married in Germany, coming to America and locating in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, in 1844. He was employed for some years in a glass factory there, but in 1852 he moved to Armstrong County, and cleared a farm where he spent his remaining years.

He came to the United States from Darmstadt, Germany, in 1844. He served in the German Army before coming to the American shores, and after arriving here took up his residence in or near East Liberty, outside of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, where he was a truck farmer for eight or nine years and where his first wife died. He then moved to Armstrong County.

He was born in Germany and was reared there on a farm and contracted his first marriage there. With his wife and one son he came to the United States in 1844 and after landing started for Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. The long journey was made partly by wagon and partly on foot. Upon their arrival, he rented a small farm, which was the later site of East Liberty, a suburb of Pittsburgh, and there he carried on truck gardening for some eight years. He then removed with his family to Kittanning, in Armstrong County, and went to work in the rolling-mills. Later, however, he resumed farming, renting land on the Indiana turnpike road, in Armstrong County. In 1859, together with his sons, he bought a farm in Kittanning Township, on which he put up a log house and barn. About ten acres of the land had been cleared and put under cultivation when the Civil War broke out and although the old father was left alone on the farm while his sons were in the army, he received their wages and thus was able to continue the payments on the land.

1 Editor, Commemorative Biographical Record of Central Pennsylvania, Including the Counties of Centre, Clearfield, Jefferson and Clarion. (Chicago: J. H. Beers & Co., 1898), Pg 837.

2 Joseph Riesenman, Jr., History of Northwestern Pennsylvania, Vol. III (New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Co., Inc., 1943), Pg 383.